The First World War: A New History

The First World War: A New History

Hew Strachan

an excellent and penetrating new heritage of the 1st international struggle via one of many world's most popular specialists at the clash. Reissued with a brand new advent from the writer.

Hew Strachan is without doubt one of the world's most desirable specialists at the nice conflict of 1914-18. His on-going three-volume historical past of the clash, the 1st of which was once released in 2001, is probably going to develop into the traditional educational reference paintings: Max Hastings referred to as it 'one of the main striking books of recent historical past in a generation', whereas Richard Holmes hailed it as a 'towering achievement'.

Now, Hew Strachan brings his huge wisdom to a one-volume paintings aimed squarely on the normal reader. the foundation in the back of the most important Channel four sequence of an analogous identify, to which Hew was once leader advisor, the 1st global battle is an important addition to the literature in this topic, taking because it does a uniquely worldwide view of what's frequently misconceived as a chronic skirmish at the Western entrance. Exploring such theatres because the Balkans, Africa and the Ottoman Empire, Strachan assesses Britain's participation within the gentle of what grew to become a fight for the defence of liberalism, and exhibit how the warfare formed the 'short' 20th century that it.

Accessible, compelling and completely convincing, this can be smooth heritage writing at its most interesting.